Barrel-hooping machine.



J. HENGY. BARREL HOOPING MACHINE.

APPLIUATION FILED DEO.2G,1907. 926,1 87. Patented June 29, 1909.

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J. HENGY.

BARREL HOOPING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.26.1907.

Patented June 29, 1909.

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JOHN HENCY, OF PERRY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE H.PEDDLE, OF

PERRY, NEW YORK.

BARREL-HOOPING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 29, 1909.

Application filed December 26, 1907. Serial No. 408,172.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, .lonx llnnov, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Perry, in the county of lVyoming and State of New York, haveinvented an Improve ment in Barrel-Hooping Machines, of which thefollowing description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is aspecification, like numerals on the drawing repre- 1o senting likeparts.

This invention has for its object to provide a novel machine forapplying hoops to barrels, casks, etc, which machine is adapted toquickly and expeditiously force the hoops firmly on the barrel.

One embodiment of my invention will first be described and then thenovel features thereof will be pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of a machine embodying myinvention; Fig. 2 is a side view thereof; Fig. 3 is a detail of one ofthe arms supporting the hoop-engag ingjaws; Fig. i is a detail view ofthe re-- versing cam of the driving mechanism; Fig. 5 is a section onthe line aa, Fig. 1; Fig. 6 is a detail showing part of the reversingmechanism; Fig. 7 is a section on the line i -g Fig. 1; Fig. 8 is an endview of Fig. (3 looking from the left; Fig. 9 is a detail showing themanner of adjusting the hoopengaging jaws for different sizes ofbarrels; Fig. 10 is a section on the line avm, Fig. 1; Fig. 11 is asection on the line Z)Z), Fig. 1; Fig. 12 is a section on the line 0c,Fig. 10; Fig. 13 is a detail view of the releasing device 50. Fig. 1% isan enlarged front elevation of the upper portion of the apparatusshowing the reversing gear; Fig. 15 is a section on the line (ZcZ, Fig.14.

The machine as herein shown comprises a base 3 on which the barrel i tobe hooped is adapted to rest, a vertically rising and falling head 5carrying hoop-engaging jaws 6, and means to lower said head thereby tobring the jaws against a hoop which has been placed on the barrel andforce the hoop firmly home and then to raise the head thereby liftingthe jaws above the barrel to permit the hooped barrel to be removed fromthe base and an unhooped barrel to be placed thereon.

I have shown herein four hoop-engaging jaws each curved slightly to fitthe contour of the barrel, and each jaw is pivotally carried at. the endof an arm 7 which in turn is pivoted intermediate of its ends to thehead 5, ,as at 8, and the upper end of which is connected to a link 9which in turn is pivoted to a fixed head 10, as at 11. Each arm 7 alsocarries a spring member 125 which has two yielding arms that engage theaw (i and thus yieldingly keep it centered.

This fixed head 10 may be supported in any suitable way, and as hereinshown it is sustained by the stand or arm 12 which rises from the base3. hen the head 5 is in its elevated position the arms 7 and links 9occupy the position shown in Figs. 1 and As the head 5 is lowered thearm 7 with the hoop-engaging aws are carried downwardly thus bringingthe jaws against a hoop 1a which has been placed on a barrel 4 supportedby the base 3, said jaws by engaging the hoop operating to drive thelatter tight. 1 have herein shown each arm 7 as connected to its link 9by a sliding pivotal connection which. will permit the jaws 6 to yieldoutwardly slightly during their driving movement and thus to followclosely the shape of the barrel.

As herein shown each arm 7 has at its upper end a pivotal pin 15 whichextends through a slot 16 formed in the link 9, and each arm is acted onby a spring 17 which surrounds the link 9 and tends to force the upperend of the arm 7 outwardly. Vith such a construction it will be observedthat the springs 17 serve to yieldingly hold the jaws 6 against thebarrel as the head 5 is depressed but that the jaws may yield outardlysutliciently to accommodate the shape of the barrel. For raising andlowering the head 5, the latter has connected thereto a rack bar 20which extends up through the fixed head 10 and has engagement at itsupper end with a driving pinion 21 that is journaled in the arm orbracket 22 extending upwardly from the fixed head 10. This drivingpinion 21 is adapted to be operated by suitable driving mechanism which,in the present embodi ment of my invention, is arranged to rotate saidpinion in one direction for a sufficient length of time to carry therack bar 20 and head 5 to the lower limit of its movement and then toreverse automatioally the direction of rotation of said driving pinionthereby to elevate the head 5. For thus driving the pinion 21 I haveprolli) vided the driving shaft 23 which is journaled in suitablebearings 2% carried at the upper end of the bracket 2 which is supportedon the stand 12 and which has thereon two oppositely-disposed beveledgears 25, 26, that are adapted to mesh with a bevel gear 27 that isconnected to or rigid with the driving pinion 21.

The bevel gears 25 and 26 are rigid with each other, they being rigidlyconnected by a sleeve 28 that is splined to the shaft 23. One end ofthis sleeve is acted on by a suitable spring 29 which is confinedbetween the bearing 24; and the hub of the gear 25, said spring actingnormally to carry the gears 25 and 26 toward the right, Fig. 1, and tomaintain the bevel gear 25 in engage ment with the bevel gear 27. Theshaft 23 may be rotated in any suitable way, as by means of a drivingpulley ltl, or a wheel 30 which may be operated by hand. When the partsare in this position and the bevel gears 25 and 27 are in mesh therotation of the shaft 23 will turn the pinion 21 in a direction to lowerthe rack bar 20 and the head 5.

For automatically reversing the direction of movement of the pinion whenthe head has reached the lower limit of its movement I have provided areversing cam which is arranged to shift the sleeve 28 with the gears 25and 26 longitudinally of the shaft 23 thereby disengaging the gear 25from the gear 27 and bringing the gear 26 into mesh with said gear 27.This reversing cam is shown in Fig. 4: and is designated 32. It iscarried by a collar 33 which is fast on a shaft 23, and as said shaftrotates the cam 32 engages a yoke 35 which embraces the stand 22 andalso embraces the gears 25 and 26.

The engagement of the cam with one arm of the yoke moves said yoke tothe left, Figs. 10 and 1%, thereby shifting the sleeve 28 and the gears25, 26, as above described, and bringing the gear 26 into mesh with thegear 27.

With the gears held in their new position the continued rotation of theshaft 23 in the same direction will obviously cause the driving pinionto rotate in the reverse di rection and will consequently elevate thesaid head.

It is necessary to hold the gear 26 in mesh with the gear 27 until thehead has been elevated and to accomplish this I provide the yoke with alocking notch 39 which is adapted to have locking engagement with acatch 40 extending from the stand 22 when said yoke has been moved tothe left Fig. 1 or to the right Fig. 6.

41 is a spring yieldingly engaging the yoke and serving to hold thelocking notch in engagement with the catch. The shape of the notch andcatch is such that as the yoke moves to the right Fig. 6, the notch isautomatically thrown into engagement with the catch by the spring 41 andsaid yoke will thus be retained in this position vith the 25 in meshwith the gear 27 until said notch is released from the catch.

The shifting of the sleeve 28 to the left, Fig. 1, puts the spring 29under tension so that when the notch 39 is released from the catch L0,said spring operates to shift automatically the gears 25 and 26 therebyto bring the bevel gear into mesh again with the bevel gear 27 and carrythe bevel gear 26 out of mesh therewith, thus rovers ing the directionof rotation of said gear 27.

l have in my present embodiment provided means for automaticallyreleasing the yoke from the catch 10 at the proper time. For thispurpose I have provided a releasing device 50 which is pivotally mountedon a pin 51 carried by the stand 22, and which has one arm 52 extendingunderneath the yoke 35 and another horizontal-ly-arranged arm 53 whichis bent forwardly at its end, as at 5e.

Fast on the shaft 23 is a disk or collar 55 having a tooth 56 whichtooth is adapted to engage the bent end 54: of the releasing device 50as said disk rotates in the direction of the arrow Fig. 3, and thusdepress the arm 53 thereof. The depression of the arm 53 raises the arm52 against the underside of the yoke 35 and lifts said yoke suflicientlyto release the lock 39 from the catch d0. As soon as this occurs thespring 29 shifts the sleeve 28 with the two bevel gears 25 and 26thereon and thus reverses the direction of movement of the pinion 21.

The tooth 56 is so placed as to cause this reversal to take place assoon as the head 5 has been carried to the upper end of its stroke.

With the construction herein shown it is simply necessary to place abarrel on the base 3 with a hoop thereon in position to be driven andthen turn the shaft 23, the rotation of said shaft operating first tolower the head 5 and hoop engaging arms 6 thereby driving the hoop, andthen to automatically reverse the direction of movement of the lrivingpinion 21 thus elevating the head 5 and carrying the parts into theposition shown in Figs. 1 and 2. l Vhen the parts have reached thisposition the driving mechanism is again automatically reversed so thaton further rotation of the shaft 23 the head 5 will be lowered again.

To make the apparatus capable of applying hoops to barrels of differentsizes I have provided an adjusting device for adjusting the jaws 6radially. The head 5 carries a plurality of radially adjustable slides60, one for each of the arms 7, to each of which slides one of the arms7 is pivoted. The adjustment of these slides radially will obviouslymove the jaws 6 in a radial direction. Each slide 60 is uided in itsradial movement in a suitable pocket or recess formed in the head 5, andas a convenient means for securing the desired radial adjustment 1 havepivoted to each slide one end 'of a link 61, the other end of which ispivoted to the periphery of an adjusting wheel (32. This adjusting wheel62 is mounted to turn on a stud on the lower side of the head 5 and hasrigid therewith the worm gear (33 with which meshes a worm G l. Theshaft of the worm G4 is journaled in suitable bearings (35 carriedby-the head 5 and is provided at its end with a handle or thumb-piece bywhich the shaft may be turned. The turning of the shaft will turn theadjusting wheel (32 and the slides 60 will thus be forced inwardly ord'awn outwardly depending on the direction in which the adjusting wheel62 is turned.

When the wheel is situated so that the links 61 stand exactly radiallyto the wheel, the slides 60 are in their extreme outward position, andas said wheel is turned to carry the links into the dotted positionshown in Fig. 11, the slides 60 are drawn inwardly as will be obvious.This particular manner of adjusting the slides is not essential to myinvention however.

The base 3 is preferably bent downwardly at its front edge, as at 70, soas to facilitate the placing of barrels thereon or the removal of thebarrels therefrom.

I have not described herein all embodiments of my invention but have inthe drawings shown one embodiment which is sulficient to illustrate theprinciple of the invention.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is 1. In a barrel-hooping machine, the com binationwith a base, of a head, means to raise and lower said head,vertically-extending arms pivoted intermediate of their ends to saidhead, hoop-engaging jaws carried by the lower ends of said arms, andlinks pivoted at their inner ends to a fixed support and having asliding pivotal connection with the upper ends of the arms.

2. In a barrelhooping machine, the combinatlon with a base of a fixedhead above the base, a vertically-movable head situated between thefixed head and the base arms plvoted between their ends to thevertically movable head, a hoop-engaging jaw at the lower end of eacharm, and links pivoted at.

lower end of each arm, and a link pivotally connecting the upper end ofeach arm to the fixed head, each link having a sliding pivotalconnection with its arm.

*Il. In a barrel-hooping machine, the combination with a base, of afixed head above the base, a vertically-movable head, arms pivotedbetween their ends to the vertically movable head, a hoop-engaging jawat the lower end of each arm, a link pivotally connecting the upper endof each arm to the fixed head, each link having a sliding pivotalconnection with its arm, and a spring acting on the upper end of eacharm.

5. In a barrel-hooping machine, the combination with a base, of a headfixedly sustained above the base, a vertically-movable head situatedbetween the fixed head and the base, radially-adjustable slidessustained by the movable head, means to adjust the slides radially, avertically-extending arm pivoted intermediate of its end to each slide,a hoop-engaging jaw at the lower end of each arm, a plurality of links,one for each arm pivoted to the fixed head, and each link having ayielding connection with the upper end of the corresponding arm.

(3. In a barrel-hooping machine, the combination with a base, of a headfixedly sustained above the base, a vertically-movable head situatedbetween the fixed head and the base, slides sustained by theverticallymovable head, means carried by said head for adjusting theslides radially, a verticallyextending arm pivoted intermediate of itsends to each slide, a hoop-engaging jaw at the lower end of each arm,and links, one for each arm, pivoted at their inner ends to said fixedhead, each link having a sliding pivotal connection with its arm, and aspring surrounding each link and tending to swing the jaws inward.

7. In a barrel-hooping machine, the combination with a base, of a head,means to lower said head, vertically-extending arms pivoted intermediateof their ends to said head, hoop-engaging jaws carried by the lower endsof said arms, links pivoted at their upper ends to a fixed support andhav ing a pivotal sliding connection with the upper ends of the arms, arack-bar secured to the head, a pinion meshing with the rack bar, adriving shaft, and means controlled by the rotation of the driving shaftto retate said pinion first in one direction and then in the other.

8. In a barrel-hooping machine, the combination with a head, ofhoop-engaging aws carried thereby, a rack bar secured to the head, apinion meshing with the rack bar, a bevel gear rigid with the pinion, adriving shaft, two oppositely-disposed bevel gears thereon, each adaptedto mesh with the firstnamed bevel gear, a spring tending normally tokeep one of the bevel gears on the driving shaft in mesh with saidfirst-named bevel gear, a cam on the driving shaft operating to shiftpositively said bevel gears longitudinally of the shaft and oppositelyto said spring thereby to reverse the direction of rotation of thepinion.

9. In a barrel-hooping machine, the combination with a head, ofhoop-engaging jaws carried thereby, a rack bar secured to the head, apinion meshing with the rack bar, a bevel gear rigid with the pinion, adriving shaft, two oppositely-disposed bevel gears thereon, each adaptedto mesh with the first-named bevel gear, a spring tending normally tokeep one of the bevel gears on the driving shaft in mesh with saidfirstnamed bevel gear, a cam operated by the driving shaft to shift saidbevel gears longitudinally in opposition to said spring, and anautomatically-acting lock to maintain said bevel gears in their shiftedposition.

10. In a barrel-hooping machine, the c0mbination with a head, ofhoop-engaging jaws carried thereby, a rack bar secured to the head, apinion meshing with the rack bar, a bevel gear rigid with the pinion, adriving shaft, two oppositely-disposed bevel gears thereon, each adaptedto mesh with the firstnamed bevel gear, a spring tending normally tokeep one of the bevel gears on the driving shaft in mesh with saidfirst-named bevel gear, means operated by the driving shaft to shiftsaid bevel gears longitudinally, an automatically-acting lock tomaintain said bevel gears in their shifted position, and means torelease the look by the rotation of the driving shaft.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN HENCY.

WVitnesses:

IDA HnNoY, G. H. PEBBLE,

